Methods and devices of quantum encoding on dwdm (roadm) network and fiber optic links .

ABSTRACT

The invention solves the following complicated problems. Elaboration of the procedure for secret key extraction from the lower layer optic signal even in a presence of noise in fiber-optic cable. The realization of the quantum protection amplification scheme to clean states of the entangling polarized photons against noise in optical channels, especially in case of use Einstein-Podolsky-Rozen method with single photon source for transmitting and measuring secret keys photon polarization in ROADM network. The development of a system for code key transmission that satisfies requirements of fortuitousness and privacy along with speed enlargement of the key generation in ROADM network. The achievement of the acceptable optical fiber amplification without losing its behavior and the protocol determination, which will allow to detect and correct bit errors in fiber optic cable and ROADM network, caused by linear and nonlinear effects. The development of quantum encoding systems for telecommunication topologies.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

Prior Art

The invention relates to data transmission via fiber optical lines andparticularly to methods and devices of data encoding therefore.

In Europe in October, 2008 the commercial network in which the quantumtechnology of enciphering of data was used was shown for the first time.The technology of quantum cryptography provides unprecedented for todaya level of enciphering of data. It took them 4 years to develop thenetwork, and 12 European countries took part in the project. Thenetwork, constructed by companies SECOQC and Siemens, included 6 unitslocated in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and in Saint Pelten, locatednearby. The distance between the units was from 6 up to 82 km. In theproject 8 communication lines were used—7 of them were made offiber-optical cables, of 200 km in the general extent, and one of thecommunications was carried out by air. In each unit there was a smallblock, in size of a desktop computer; each block was equipped by lightgauges. Elementary particles transferred on communication channels,photons, were carriers of the information, and of codes of encipheringat the same time.

Einstein-Podolsky-Rozen paradox (EPR) and Jon Bell's theorem (1964) haveserved the conceptual foundation for quantum encoding. Quantum encodingis based on the entanglement of the pair of pure single-photon impulses,the source for which is a depressed laser ray. Henceforth the theorem byJon Bell was extended by J. F. Clauser and M. A. Horne (1974), whichmade it possible to check experimentally the foundation of quantumencoding. The result surpassed all expectations—quantum encoding cansecure the absolute privacy, i.e. ensure data transmission security fromunauthorized access (interception and decoding).

The existing standard Data Encryption Standard (DES) uses a short key,consisting of 64 bits, 56 of which are used directly in algorithm, andthe last 8 are used for detecting errors. DES enciphers blocks of theplain text of 64 bits in length. Breaking-in DES requires searchingamong the fifty-sixth power of two possible keys. Even though if aclassical computer starts examining them at the speed of one million persecond, it will need about 1000 years to find the correct key, whereasthe quantum computer, using Love Grovers's algorithm from AT&T Bell labswill do this task less than in four minutes. The same thing concerns themore reliable methods of encryption, such as Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)algorithm, which are used to protect electronic banking accounts. When acomputer for quantum factorization or, to put it in simpler words, forquick decomposition of large numbers, will be designed and it will beable to use the algorithm of factorization of large numbers, discoveredby Peter Shore (1991) besides Grover's algorithm, then all the accesscontrol systems mentioned above (DES, RSA), will be, to put it mildly,not very reliable. Quite often from time to time a rumor goes round thatDES has been already cracked, but even if it is not true, DES can't beconsidered to be absolutely secure, because it uses one and the samecoding key a lot of times. Quantum encoding makes it possible to useso-called a distributed key with polarized photons or phase encoding,which is only used for one communication session.

Nowadays the application of methods of quantum encoding on densewavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) (Reconfigurable Optical Add DropMultiplexers (ROADM)) network are of great interest.

ROADM is key elements for building a dynamically reconfigurable DWDMnetwork. ROADM accelerates triple-play service deployment and enablesadvanced wavelength applications at a much lower cost.

ROADM network consist of next units (FIG. 1):

-   -   WXC—Wavelength Cross Connect;    -   WSS—Wavelength Selective Switch;    -   EDFA—Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier;    -   PLC—Planar Light wave Circuit;    -   MUX—Multiplexer;    -   DEMUX—Demultiplexer;    -   OAM—Optical Amplifier Module (inc. dispersion compensation);    -   FBG—Fiber Bragg Grating;    -   Raman amplifier.

The technical result of the proposed invention lays in:

-   -   optimization of the existing systems of quantum encoding in        order to enlarge the operating range in ROADM and fiber optic,    -   enlarging the speed of the key generation,    -   reducing quantum bit-error probability,    -   construction of a plurality of stable quantum encoding systems        for end-users use with various EPR configurations,    -   procedure elaborating of the secret key extraction from the        lower layer optic signal even in a presence of noise in        fiber-optic cable,    -   developing of quantum encoding systems for such widespread        telecommunications topologies, as point-to-point,        point-to-multipoint, star, ring, adjacent rings.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION

The proposed methods and devices solves the next complicated problems.

Elaboration of the procedure for extraction of the secret key from thelower layer optic signal even if there is a certain amount of noise infiber-optic cable. The realization of the quantum protectionamplification (QPA) scheme for the purpose to clean states of theentangling polarized photons against noise in optical channels,especially in case if we use Einstein-Podolsky-Rozen (EPR) method withsingle photon source for transmitting and measuring secret keys photonpolarization in ROADM network.

Effect EPR arises when the spherical and symmetric atom starts toradiate two photons in opposite directions towards two observers.Photons are always radiated with uncertain (indefinite) polarization butas they are symmetric, both photons on opposite sides have oppositepolarization. Polarization of photons can be defined only after carryingout of measurements. A. Ekert /1/ has offered the scheme of transmissionof confidential quantum keys that uses EPR method. The sender generatessome EPR pairs of photons. One photon from each pair remains on thetransferring side, and the second is dispatched to its partner. In thiscase, at quality of registration of photons close to 100% if the senderregisters logic 1, its partner on an opposite side always registerslogic 0 and on the contrary. Thus, both partners can receive identicalconfidential keys. But practical implementation of this scheme seems tobe quite problematic, especially in ROADM network, because of aconsiderable quantity of intermediate nodes and, accordingly, presenceof a considerable quantity of noise at the optical channel against whichthe estimation of a condition of polarization of photons on thereceiving side should be carried out.

The development of a good single-photon laser source. Since it is just adepressed laser ray that serves the source of light for quantumencoding, the number of photons in the impulse is random quantity withPoisson distribution. That means that some impulses might contain nophotons at all, whereas the others might contain several of them.Impulses containing more than one photon per impulse should be avoidedin order to exclude the probability of leak to an eavesdropper (anintercepting agent). In order to make the probability of more than onephoton's presence in one impulse quite low, it is necessary to use veryweek impulses. This, in turn, can reduce the signal/noise ratio.

The development of such a system for code key transmission thatsatisfies requirements of fortuitousness and privacy and allows enlargethe speed and the distance of the generation of the key in ROADMnetwork.

The achievement of the acceptable optical fiber amplification withoutlosing its behavior and the determination of the protocol, which willmake it possible to detect and correct bit errors in fiber optic cableand ROADM network, caused by linear (attenuation, noise, dispersion) andnonlinear (four wave mixing, self phase modulation, cross phasemodulation) effects. Elaboration of the station of reiteration forquantum cryptography (quantum repeater). The existing systems of quantumencoding, that use infra-red photons in quartz light-emitting diode,have a level of loss on the order of 0.2 dB/km. So, apparently, quantumencoding systems at the distance exceeding 100 km (62.14 miles) (withloss in 20 dB and the level of passing-through 0.01) without usingsystems of recovery, which do not destroy quantum correlation, areimpossible.

For high speed data service (40 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s) it is necessary to findout if it is possible to use encoding and modulation of an optic signalfor the purpose of compensation polarization mode dispersion (PMD) andchromatic dispersion (CD).

The development of quantum encoding systems for widespreadtelecommunications topologies, such as point-to-point,point-to-multipoint, star, ring, adjacent rings. and for use in ROADMnetwork. Today, in addition to the topologies point-to-point andpoint-to-multipoint, (for example, the central office of a bank—itsbranches), some improvement in that direction has been suggestedalready, but may be it still needs deeper investigations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

FIG. 1. Structure of ROADM network.

FIG. 2. Diagram showing the difference between conventional out-of-bandOSNR and in-band OSNR measurements.

FIG. 3. Diagram showing the power spectrum of DFB laser.

FIG. 4. Diagram showing the power spectrum after DFB laser and opticalmultiplexer in a presence of noise.

FIG. 5. Diagram showing the power spectrum after ROADM WXC-WavelengthCross Connect.

FIG. 6. Diagram showing the power spectrum after PLC and EDFA.

FIG. 7. Block diagram of the OPS method.

FIG. 8. Diagram showing the test In-band OSNR for various methods.

FIG. 9. Table showing the comparison of the OSNR measurement methods.

FIG. 10. Block diagram of test setup at Tellabs/Chicago.

FIG. 11. Diagram showing the OSNR Measurement Error at 43 Gb/s.

FIG. 12. Diagram showing the experimental setup data.

FIG. 13. Diagram showing the OSNR measured by OPS-method for differentmodulation rates without PMD.

FIG. 14. Diagram showing the OSNR measurement error for 43 G signalswith OPS-method at DGD up to 20 ps.

FIG. 15. Diagram showing the OSNR measurement error for 10G signals withOPS-method at DGD up to 50 ps.

FIG. 16. Diagram showing the system for the code key passing

FIG. 16.1. Diagram illustrating the Fixed Analyzer Method.

FIG. 16.2. Diagram illustrating the JME Method.

FIG. 16.3. Diagram illustrating the TINTY Method.

FIG. 16.4. Diagram illustrating the GINTY Method.

FIG. 17. Diagram showing the way of simplification of optical networkconstruction using eDCO and ROADM.

FIG. 18. Diagram showing the G.709 OTN Overhead.

FIG. 19. Diagram showing the Reed Solomon code ITU-T G.975recommendation for the scheme FEC G.709.

FIG. 20. Diagram showing the Reed Solomon (RS (255,239)) code algorithm.

FIG. 21. Diagram showing the Bit Error Rate Performance on differentalgorithm FEC.

FIG. 22. Table showing the comparative description of different types ofmodulations.

FIG. 23. Diagram showing the type of modulation, that allow to solve ofthe problems on compensation of dispersion losses.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Relying on the above said it can be assumed that quantum cryptographymethods known in the art are completely realizable from the technicalviewpoint in ROADM network.

Hereinafter the following solution of abovementioned problems isproposed.

1. The private key extraction procedure in the presence of noise infiber optics and ROADM networks for EPR method with single photon sourcefor transmitting and measuring of photons polarization.

The realization of the QPA scheme for the purpose to clean states of theentangling polarized photons in the presence of noise in opticalchannels ROADM based network

The principles, which will be examined in point 4 (use of the protocols,which will make it possible to detect and correct bit errors in fiberoptic cable, caused by linear and nonlinear effects) and, which make itpossible to reach the acceptable quantum channel amplification withoutlosing its behavior, they in any way assume that some amount of noise isstill left. That means that at the reception we have a number of socalled unclean entangled states of polarized photons, which haveappeared in the result of various linear and non-linear anomalies in theoptical channel, especially in case if we use EPR method with singlephoton source for transmitting and measuring of polarization in ROADMnetwork.

Effect EPR arises when the spherical and symmetric atom starts toradiate two photons in opposite directions towards two observers.Photons are always radiated with uncertain polarization but as they aresymmetric, both photons on opposite sides have opposite polarization.Polarization of photons can be defined only after carrying out ofmeasurements. A. Ekert has offered the scheme of transmission ofconfidential quantum keys that uses EPR method. The sender generatessome EPR pairs of photons. One photon from each pair remains on thetransferring side, and the second is dispatched to its partner. In thiscase, at quality of registration of photons close to 100% if the senderregisters logic 1, its partner on an opposite side always registerslogic 0 and on the contrary. Thus, both partners can receive identicalconfidential keys. But practical implementation of this scheme seems tobe quite problematic, especially in ROADM network, because of aconsiderable quantity of intermediate nodes and, accordingly, presenceof a considerable quantity of noise at the optical channel against whichthe estimation of a condition of polarization photons on the receivingside should be carried out.

An Optical Polarized Splitter (OPS) method is proposed to resolve thesedrawbacks. There are a lot of schemes of purifying of the entangledphotons, but the QPA scheme (quantum secrecy amplification) isconsidered to be the most effective among them. It was set forth in thework /1/. It was proved, that this kind of scheme causes higher securityof quantum cryptography, which uses noisy communication channels. Theevidence was received in 1998 and it was set forth in the work /2/.

The matter of the evidence comes to the following. If we start purifyingthe entanglement with those photon couples, which quality exceeds 50%,and then the couples' state after the purifying procedure (whichconsists of several iterations or steps) always comes to pure state ofthe photon couples with nearly 100% probability. At the same time acertain procedure is carried out that allows it to detect potentialeavesdropping. The estimation of the amount of the information, whichcould have become open to the eavesdropping agent, can be regarded asthe function of characteristic (data) with acceptable, tolerable orintolerable quality. By “acceptable” it is implied that, by means ofcertain successive procedures, such as quantum amplification of secrecy,it is possible to reduce quality up to any acceptable level at theexpense of using a shorter key. However, it is necessary to keep in minda certain threshold at which too much information has leaked to theeavesdropping agent. In this case no other further quantum amplificationof secrecy is impossible and this communication session should bestopped.

The OPS method may consider as suitable for measuring the in-bandOptical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (OSNR) as one of the cases of practicalrealization of QPA method. The OSNR is the key performance parameter inoptical networks that predicts the bit error rate (BER) of the system.OSNR is conventionally obtained by measuring the total signal power inthe channel passband and the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noiselevels in the gaps between the optical channels. This is called theout-of-band OSNR. In transparent reconfigurable wavelength divisionmultiplexing (WDM) networks, the ASE noise floor undergoes a noiseshaping by the in-line optical filters of the ROADMs suppressing thenoise between optical channels. The out-of-band OSNR will overestimatethe ‘true’ OSNR. By measuring the noise power inside the optical channelpassband it is possible to obtain the ‘true’ OSNR which is called thein-band OSNR, see FIG. 2.

To get access to the in-band noise level several methods using thepolarization-nulling technique have been proposed. Thepolarization-nulling technique is considered sensitive to polarizationmode dispersion (PMD) effects, especially in high speed networks. /3/

Farther a new technique will be demonstrated. It serves to overcome thePMD sensitivity based on polarization splitting and simultaneousmeasurement of both states of polarization (SOP) with a dual portOptical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA). This method is called the opticalpolarization splitting method (OPS).

In contrast to linear interpolation OSNR method, which carries outmeasuring of out-of-band OSNR, in-band OSNR also allows it to estimatethe value of “pure” noise proper. While examining optical signalspectrum, step by step passing through compound ROADM devices (FIG. 1.),one can notice, that so called the noise arm increases in proportion tothe number of devices, which the optical signal passes through fromDistributed Feedback Laser (DFB) to the last Add/Drop opticalmultiplexer and Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier EDFA following it in thetransport network ROADM.

FIG. 3 shows the diagram of signal after DFB laser. And the noise-levelproper is fluctuating at the mark 40 dB—the line A. The signal levelapproximately equals 8 dB—the line B.

FIG. 4. shows the result of work of the first optical multiplexer (MUX)FIG. 1.), which has united 27 signals, and the next after it is ErbiumDoped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) (FIG. 1.). The noise-level goes up toapproximately −32 dB. The arm of pure noise increases. The signal levelhas fallen up to 2-3 dB.

FIG. 5 shows a spectrogram, received after the optical cross connectorWavelength Cross Connect (WXC)—1.), which has dropped six channels andafter following it Optical Amplifier Module (OAM FIG. 1.) with anembedded Fiber Bragg grating (FBG), which is used for CD compensation.In the result of that the arm of pure signal with respect to pure noisehas fallen. OSNR keeps on falling.

The next optical signal conditioning into Planar Light Wave Circuit(PLC, see FIG. 1.) with the following amplification in EDFA caused thesituation, when the signal/noise ratio can be evaluated as ratherunsatisfactory, specifically the signal value is fluctuating near themark −17 dB, and the arm of the pure noise proper increases up to −32dB.(FIG. 6.) The foremost cause of this effect is that each opticalsignal amplifier in ROADM introduces so called ASE noise, which worsensthe value of OSNR. It is obvious that it causes the necessity of testingof in-band OSNR.

Thus, in order to estimate the amount of “pure” noise, brought by thecomponents of ROADM network and/or by switching on probable opticalpassive and active elements of the eavesdropping agent, it is possibleto use the method of OPS, applicable for in-band OSNR measuring.

The essence of this method is shown further. The underlying concept ofthe polarization-nulling technique is that the modulated signals consistof arbitrary polarized light, while the ASE noise consists ofnon-polarized light (FIG. 7) shows the operating principle of theproposed OPS method.

An adjustable PC is used to find the minimum and the maximum opticalpower by aligning to the state of polarization of the signal or itsorthogonal state to the polarizer. It is possible to suppress thepolarized optical signal (PS) and get access to the non-polarizedin-band noise (PN). A high performance polarization beam splitter (PBS)is used to split the signal into two arms, SOP-1 (states ofpolarization) and SOP-2, both being linearly polarized in orthogonalstates. The dual port high resolution OSA can simultaneously measureboth arms (SOP-1 and SOP-2) of the PBS containing the suppressed signal(PS1, PS2) and the ASE noise. A measurement of the in-band OSNR willneed multiple scans over a selected wavelength range with differentsettings of the PC to find the maximum suppression of the signal. Theminimum of P1 and P2 indicates PN, with the signal being suppressed,whereas the sum of P1 and P2 shows PS+PN. At the end of the measurementthe in-band OSNR values of all channels are shown based on the followingequations:

P1=(PS1+.PN)  (1)

P2=(PS2+.PN)  (2)

PS=PS1+PS2  (3)

P1+P2=PS+PN  (4)

PN=Min (P1, P2)  (5)

OSNR=PS/PN=(P1+P2)−Min(P1,P2))/Min(P1,P2)  (6)

Under the influence of PMD, the signal will depolarize with afrequency-dependent SOP, causing a noise power overestimation and signalpower under-estimation due to the linear polarizer aligned with a singleSOP. Optical polarization splitting method (OPS-method) shows high PMDrobustness due to three factors:

1. Both SOP are simultaneously measured avoiding any underestimation ofthe total aggregate power of the signal and the ASE.

2. An ultra narrow-band filter, with 7.5 GHz bandwidth, is used tominimize depolarization effects.

3. An adaptive off-center measurement is employed to measure the noiselevel at the optical signal slope, reducing the effect of overestimatingthe ASE noise. With the combination of a wavelength scanning spectrumanalyzer and the alignment of the SOP by the adjustable polarizationcontroller, it is possible to measure the in-band OSNR of all opticalchannels of a DWDM network with reduced sensitivity to PMD.

To compare the accuracy of OSNR measurement data by means of variousmethods, see the following chart of measurement (FIG. 8), that shows theresult of measuring OSNR by different methods for the eight channels ofROADM. It was made in the laboratory Tellabs Chicago US /4/.

S—is the out-of-band OSNR method, which has given five false (incorrect)measurement data. (2, 3, 4, 6, 7 ch—FIG. 9.)

E—is the polarization diversity detection method, which has given threeincorrect results. (3, 4, 8 ch—FIG. 9) The only difference between thismethod and OPS is that it (polarization diversity detection) does notuse the polarization controller.

OPS—is the method, which has shown the most correct results. (FIG. 9).

Experiments and results for the OPS method estimation.

Most studies and experiments of polarization-nulling based on OSNRmeasurements have been focused on 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s NRZ and 43 Gb/sCS-RZ, PSBT and DPSK-RZ signals. Further are shown the results of OSNRmeasurements using the OPS method in Tellabs Chicago US ultra high speedagile optical networks that include different optical filtertechnologies and 40 Gb/s transponder modules with different modulations(see below).

The sensitivity of the OPS-method against the following effects has beentested.

-   -   PMD ;    -   Filter cascading (1, 4, 8, 15 optical filters);    -   Modulation format (CS-RZ, PSBT, DPSK-RZ) ;    -   Modulation speed (43 G and 10.7 G).

Test Setup:

The following pictures (FIG. 10) show the block diagram and the testsetup at Tellabs in Chicago:

-   -   180 km SSMF with 8 optical amplifiers and 4 ROADMs    -   3 optical channels at 43 Gb/s: CS-RZ, PSBT and DPSK-RZ.

Test Results

-   -   The OSNR was measured with a standard optical spectrum analyzer        using the linear interpolation method and a new OSA using the        OPS method. The measurement results at the test access points A        to D (FIG. 10) representing an OSNR range from 33 dB to 22 dB        are shown in the following table (FIG. 11).

The test results show that the conventional OSA method will always showOSNR values that are too high since this method is based on the noisepower in the gaps between the channels. This is suppressed by in-lineoptical filtering. The error can be as high as 9-10 dB depending on thesystem configuration. The OPS-OSA method shows very accuratemeasurements with an error of less than ±1 dB.

An improved OSNR measurement technique called Optical PolarizationSplitting based on the polarization-nulling method is proposed. The testresults with Tellabs ultra high speed networks showed that the proposedtechnique could measure the OSNR accurately at all modulation formatseven when the signal was significantly depolarized due to PMD andnonlinear birefringence.

FIG. 12 shows the experimental setup using different signal sources (Tx)with 10 G NRZ, 43 G-NRZ-DPSK, 43 G-RZ-DPSK and 43 G-PSBT modulation.

The OSNR could be adjusted between 10 dB and 30 dB, using twoattenuators and a 3 dB coupler combining an ASE noise source and themodulated signal. A PMD emulator was inserted to simulate the effects ofdifferential group delay (DGD) in the range of 0 to 50 ps. To simulatethe effect of a ROADM network, an optical filter bank was inserted(Filters). The 0.5 dB filter bandwidth could be modified between 32 GHzand 23 GHz to emulate the bandwidth narrowing effect due to filtercascading of 11 and 22 ROADMs. As a reference value, the OSNR wasmeasured with a standard OSA with a 3 dB coupler in parallel to theROADM filters.

FIG. 13 shows the measurement result of the proposed OPS-method fordifferent modulation schemes without PMD. The measurement error wassmaller than 0.5 dB for OSNR varying from 10 dB to 30 dB.

FIG. 14 shows the measurement accuracy of 43 G signals with DGD in therange of 0 to 20 ps. The measurement accuracy for the 43 G-NRZ signalswas in the range of 0.5 dB.

The next FIG. 15 shows the measurement results of the OPS method for 10G signals with DGD up to 50 ps. The measurement accuracy was in therange of 0.5 dB.

The OPS method combines the advantage of a conventional high resolutionOSA and the improved polarization-nulling technique with polarizationsplitting for ‘true’ in-band OSNR measurement. Using simultaneousmeasurement of both SOP, together with adaptive narrow band off-centerfiltering gives high robustness to PMD effects. Measurements at datarates up to 43 G have shown an accuracy of 0.5 dB. A further advantageof the OPS method is that all WDM channels can be measuredsimultaneously and it imposes no constraints on measurements inhigh-speed communication systems 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s.

Thus, the OPS method is the best for in-band OSNR measuring use, as oneof the cases of practical realizations of the QPA. OPS method will allowit to start purifying of entanglement from those photon couples whosequality is not lower than 50%, especially in case of use EPR method withsingle photon source for transmit and measure secret keys photonpolarization in ROADM network.

2. The product of the Canadian company EXFO Electro-Optical EngineeringInc WDM Laser Source IQS-2400 is up to date one of the best, might beuse like single-photon laser source for code key shipment in ROADMnetwork.

EXFO has a certificate ISO 9001 and the quality certificate for thistype of equipment. Besides, IQS-2400 conforms to “Part 15 of the FCCRules” and European Union WEEE directive.

The following main principals are observed:

-   -   the device cannot be the source of parasitic interference;    -   the device treats any type of input interference, including        those, which may cause objectionable jobs.

Hereinafter the necessary main technical characteristics are introduced:

-   -   C, L wave bands C-band 1528 nm to 1565 nm, L-band 1566 nm to        1606 nm;    -   +13 dBm power output;    -   ±0.01 nm accuracy (fidelity) and high retention stability for        specified wave length during 8 hours at 23° C.±1° C. and        relative humidity 50%, that allows it to suppress depolarization        and at random fluctuating birefringence (Hi-Bi). The given        accuracy is the best among all possible at present.    -   High-precision WDM Laser Source;    -   IQS-2400 WDM Laser Source allows it to do stable power testing        of high-accuracy—Power stability c, d (dB) 15 min ±0.005        (Δ=0.01) 8 h±0.03 (Δ=0.06), Output power uncertainty c (dB)        ±0.3, of spectral sensitivity—Wavelength accuracy c, d (nm)        ±0.01 Wavelength stability d, e(nm) ±0.002 of active and passive        components, and WDM blocks;    -   IQS-2400 emulates ITU-T in lambda beds (channels or canals) in        WDM applications, such as multiwave net simulation and multiplex        gangway ports for testing EDFA amplifiers' characteristics and        for testing losses in the passive DWDM components (elements);    -   IQS-2400 makes it possible to test all kinds of recommended        ITU-T wavelengths for DWDM with (noise) dithering up to 300 kHz        with a square and triangular pulse shape. Herewith the output        power amounts to 13 dBm, in discrete steps of 10 dB;    -   DFB (Distributed Feedback Laser) diode can be made with        characteristics required for customer's tests for both standard        fiber optic cables and PMF (Polarization Maintaining Fiber).

Laser irradiation parameters of IQS-2400 WDM Laser Source:

1.1. The regular (standard) mode of behavior provides testing at anywavelength, making it possible to control the output power at bothmanual and automatic mode.

1.2. High-accuracy wave stability mode provides wavelength retention ofthe wavelength and of the output power via adjustment (control) of thelaser temperature and the power with the step of 0.01 C (Celsius) and0.01 mA accordingly. In contrast to the regular mode of behavior, wherethere may be a slight drift of the central harmonic wave inconsideration of dispersion effects, the given method makes it possibleto do high accuracy tests for a long time. The temperature stabilizationcircuit ensures low central wavelength drift.

1.3. The (noise) dithering mode provides the possibility of signalmodulation over the range 10 Hz to 300 kHz and makes it possible toinput some slight oscillations of square and triangular pulses into CWsignal (signal coherence length).

1.4. The mode of pulsations (on/off) provides the possibility of signalmodulation over the range 10 Hz to 300 kHz, the maximal optic signalsuppression during activation and ensures the external synchronizationfrom several sources, including external TTL and synchronization outputof the DWDM modules. The sources of synchronization may be thrown intoaction (switched on) with different magnitudes of amplitude, phase andfrequency.

The automatic calibration of DFB laser must be done in strict accordancewith NIST-traceable wavelength meter and four-channel power meter. As aresult there is an accurate value (magnitude) of the central impulse ofharmonic component at any declared value of the output power.

-   -   Laser sources specifications.    -   IQS-2402 Specifications:    -   Model P4    -   Wavelength band (nm) 1308 ±5    -   Wavelength tuning range (nm) ±0.5 (typical)    -   Wavelength tuning resolution b (nm) 0.01    -   Wavelength accuracy c, d (nm) ±0.01    -   Wavelength stability d, e (nm) ±0.002    -   Output power f (dBm) 10    -   Output power attenuation range (dB) >6    -   Spectral linewidth (MHz) (typical) <20    -   Sidemode suppression g (dB) 30 (40 typical)    -   Output power uncertainty c (dB) ±0.3    -   Power stability c, d (dB) 15 min ±0.005 (Δ=0.01)    -   8 h ±0.03 (Δ=0.06)    -   Modulation frequency (internal or external sync.) (kHz) 0.010 to        300    -   Dithered modulation amplitude range h (mA) 1 to 5    -   Dithered modulation electrical waveform Square/triangular.    -   IQS-2403 Specifications:    -   Model P4/P5 P6/P7    -   Wavelength band: C-band 1528 nm to1565 nm    -   Wavelength tuning range a (nm) ±1    -   Wavelength tuning resolution b (nm) 0.01    -   Wavelength accuracy c, d (nm) ±0.01±0.02    -   Wavelength stability d, e (nm) ±0.002±0.002    -   Output power f (dBm) 10 13    -   Spectral linewidth (MHz) (typical) <20    -   Output power attenuation range (dB) 10    -   Sidemode suppression g (dB) 30 (40 typical)    -   Output power uncertainty c (dB) ±0.3    -   Power stability c, d (dB) 15 min ±0.005 (Δ=0.01)    -   8 h ±0.03 (Δ=0.06) ±0.03 (Δ=0.06)    -   Modulation frequency (internal or external sync.) (kHz) 0.010 to        300    -   Dithered modulation amplitude range h (mA) 1 to 5    -   Dithered modulation electrical waveform Square/triangular    -   Size (H×W×D) 125 mm×36 mm×282 mm 4 15/16 in×1 7/16 in×11⅛ in    -   Weight 0.580 kg 1.25 lb    -   Temperature    -   Operating 10° C. to 40° C. 50° F. to 104° F.    -   Storage −40° C. to 70° C. −40° F. to 158° F.    -   Relative humidity 0 to 95% non-condensing    -   Instruments Drivers    -   Lab VIEW™ drivers, SCPI commands and COM/DCOM libraries    -   Remote Control    -   With IQS-500: GPIB (IEEE-488.1, IEEE-488.2) Ethernet and RS-232.    -   Standard Accessories    -   User guide, test report and Certificate of Compliance.    -   IQS-2404 Specifications:    -   Model P4/P5 P6/P7    -   Wavelength band: L-band 1566 nm to 1606 nm    -   Wavelength tuning range a (nm) ±1    -   Wavelength tuning resolution b (nm) 0.01    -   Wavelength accuracy c, d (nm) ±0.01±0.02    -   Wavelength stability d, e (nm) ±0.002±0.002    -   Output power f (dBm) 10 13    -   Output power attenuation range (dB) 10    -   Spectral line width (MHz) (typical) <20    -   Side mode suppression g (dB) 30 (40 typical)    -   Output power uncertainty c (dB) ±0.3    -   Power stability c, d (dB) 15 min ±0.005 (Δ=0.01) 8 h±0.03        (Δ=0.06)    -   Modulation frequency (internal or external sync.) (kHz) 0.010 to        300    -   Dithered modulation amplitude range h (mA) 1 to 5    -   Dithered modulation electrical waveform Square/triangular    -   Note:    -   a. Guaranteed if the ambient temperature stays between 15° C. to        30° C.    -   b. In high-wavelength stability mode, better resolution is        possible, but on a limited range.    -   c. Specified at 23° C.±1° C. with 50% relative humidity.    -   d. After a 1-hour warm up period.    -   e. For 8 hours at 23° C.±1° C. with 50% relative humidity.    -   f. Output power is specified at connector output.    -   g. Guaranteed at maximum power level.    -   h. Dithered modulation is only available internally at a typical        duty cycle of 50% duty cycle.

General Specifications:

-   -   Wavelength band Connector code    -   02=1308 nm 96=E-2000/APCa    -   03=1528-1565 nm C-band EA-EUI-89=APC/FC    -   04=1566-1606 nm L-band EA-EUI-91=APC/SC    -   EA-EUI-95=APC/E-2000    -   IQS-24XXBLD-XX-XX-XX    -   Specified wave length (nm):    -   96=1528.77 29=1554.94 62=1582.02    -   97=1529.55 30=1555.75 63=1582.85    -   98=1530.33 31=1556.55 64=1583.69    -   99=1531.12 32=1557.36 65=1584.53    -   00=1531.90 33=1558.17 66=1585.36    -   01=1532.68 34=1558.98 67=1586.20    -   02=1533.47 35=1559.79 68=1587.04    -   03=1534.25 36=1560.61 69=1587.88    -   04=1535.04 37=1561.42 70=1588.73    -   05=1535.82 38=1562.23 71=1589.57    -   06=1536.61 39=1563.05 72=1590.41    -   07=1537.40 40=1563.86 73=1591.26    -   08=1538.19 41=1564.68 74=1592.10    -   09=1538.98 42=1565.50 75=1592.95    -   10=1539.77 43=1566.31 76=1593.79    -   11=1540.56 44=1567.13 77=1594.64    -   12=1541.35 45=1567.95 78=1595.49    -   13=1542.14 46=1568.77 79=1596.34    -   14=1542.94 47=1569.59 80=1597.19    -   15=1543.73 48=1570.43 81=1598.04    -   16=1544.53 49=1571.24 82=1598.89    -   17=1545.32 50=1572.06 83=1599.75    -   18=1546.12 51=1572.89 84=1600.60    -   19=1546.92 52=1573.71 85=1601.46    -   20=1547.72 53=1574.54 86=1602.31    -   21=1548.51 54=1575.37 87=1603.17    -   22=1549.32 55=1576.20 88=1604.03    -   23=1550.12 56=1577.03 89=1604.89    -   24=1550.92 57=1577.86 90=1605.74    -   25=1551.72 58=1578.69 CU=1308    -   26=1552.52 59=1579.52    -   27=1553.33 60=1580.35    -   28=1554.13 61=1581.18    -   Options Code    -   P3=user-provided DFB(s)    -   P4=+10 dBm    -   P5=+10 dBm with PMF output b    -   P6=+13 dBm    -   P7=+13 dBm with PMF output b

3. The system for the code key shipment, which satisfies requirements ofits fortuitousness and privacy and allows enlarge the speed and thedistance of the generation of the key in ROADM network.

The fortuitousness in the process of the key distribution can be reachedby means of polarization of photon pulses in Pockels cells(horizontal/vertical polarization) or by means of phase encoding.

The privacy appears thanks to the fundamental property of quantummechanics called indeterminism. The single photon pulse prepared inhorizontal/vertical basis and diagonally measured with equal theoreticalfrequency may get on detector “1” or on detector “0”. The choice istotally accidental; there is nothing in the photon that can reveal whichdirection it is going to take.

The privacy is reached at the expense of application of the two types ofpolarization. Not only of horizontal/vertical, but also diagonalpolarization, which is obtained at the expense of the shift of thereference axes of the impulse x, y, z at 45 degrees, i.e. at the expenseof the shift of the pole from horizontal/vertical to diagonal in orderto get the second basis and may be reached by use Jones MatrixEigenanalysis (JME) method and Method Fixed Analyzer (MFA).

The privacy is also obtained at the expense of phase shift: 0,p-cardinal basis for encoding 1 and 0 accordingly, p/2, 3p/2—basis withphase shift at p/2 for encoding 1 and 0 accordingly and may be reachedby use Interferometer Generalized Method (GINTY) and InterferometerTraditional Method (TINTY) method. The given methods of testing arestandardized, and successfully used today /5/.

Due to methods, mentioned above, used for measurement PMD in high-speed(up to 40 Gb/s and higher), ultra-long-haul (up to several thousand km)ROADM network, it the speed of the key generation also enlarges.

The essence of JME is the following. In order to get so-called Jonesmatrix when measuring Differencing Group Delay (DGD) feature they takethree successive (step-by-step) measurements for a certain wavelengthwith free polarizations. Then they take the mean (average value) of DGDfor estimation of PMD delay and PMD coefficient, or for velocities from40 Gb/s and higher second order PMD delay, second order PMD coefficient.For this method they use a narrow-band laser source and a transmittingpolarizer with scrambler and a receiving analyzer with a depolarizer.

-   -   Fixed Analyzer Method (FAM) (or Wavelength Scanning).    -   The essence of the method.

From the power fluctuations spectrum, the mean period of the intensitymodulation is measured. This is realized by counting the number ofextrema (i.e., measuring the rate at which the state of polarizationchanges as wavelength changes), in order to give a mean DGD.Alternatively, a Fourier transform into the time domain will also give agraph, and the RMS DGD value is determined from the standard deviationof the Gaussian curve (for fiber

-   -   links with strong mode coupling).    -   Interferometer Traditional Method (TINTY).    -   Principle of the method.

For fiber links (usually strong mode coupling), the result is aninterferogram with random phases, and the mean DGD value is determinedfrom the standard deviation of its curve. Nevertheless, the fringeenvelopes obtained are a combination of two functions. An algorithm mustbe used to try to remove the central auto correlation peak whichcontains no PMD information.

Interferometer Generalized Method (GINTY).

Principle of the method.

For fiber links (usually strong mode coupling), the result is aninterferogram with random phases, and the mean DGD value is determinedfrom the standard deviation of the curve. This time, the two signals ofthe polarization diversity detection allow to removing the contributionof the source auto-correlation peak. It is possible to obtain theinterferogram without the central peak thanks to the polarization beamsplitter. However the real benefit of this method is only obtained bythe use of polarization scramblers, allowing to improving absoluteuncertainty of the measurement results.

So, the schemes shown in FIG. 16 may be used for code key transmittingthrough ROADM based network, which satisfies requirements of itsfortuitousness and privacy and allows enlarge the speed and the distanceof the generation of the key in ROADM network.

Thus, the fortuitousness in the process of the key distribution can bereached by means of polarization of photon pulses in Pockels cells(horizontal/vertical polarization) or by means of phase encoding.

The privacy is reached at the expense of application of the two types ofpolarization (ITU G.650.2 PMD test Method—Jones Matrix Eigenanalysis JMEmethod and Fixed Analyzer Method) and at the expense of phase shift (ITUG.650.2 PMD test Method—Interferometer Generalized Method (GINTY) andInterferometer Traditional Method).

Due to methods, mentioned above, used for measurement PMD in high-speed(up to 40 Gb/s and higher), ultra-long-haul (up to several thousand km)ROADM network, it the speed of the key generation also enlarges.

4. The achievement of the acceptable optical fiber amplification withoutlosing its behavior and the determination of the protocol, which allowto detect and correct bit errors in fiber optic cable and ROADM network,caused by linear (attenuation, noise, dispersion) and nonlinear (fourwave mixing, self phase modulation, cross phase modulation) effects.

For quantum communication we cannot use the same repeating amplifiers(repeaters) as for classic digital technique. In order to constructEPR-correlations it is necessary to transmit single Q-bit, but theycannot be amplified./9/. All that it is possible to do in this case isto register (to record) if the photon has been absorbed and if it has,then to repeat the transmitting. To this effect they use an embeddedpurifying protocol (cell relay), described in details in the /10/. Thework of this protocol (cell relay) is used as basis for the idea ofrealization of the quantum repeater, which is not a local amplifier, butincludes control points (checkpoints) and the embedded purifyingprotocol (cell relay). In the checkpoints they use a small “quantumprocessor” for purifying cell relay entangling and for exchange of theentangling (entanglement). The high quality tangling distribution(allocation) through a compound optical channel is coordinated by theglobal (embedded) purifying cell relay. This kind of network isinsensitive to errors and checking at local operations.

Contemporary high-speed optical networks are developed in the directionof increasing of the signal transmission range, increasing of thepossible amount of wavelengths at the expense of reducing of the channelburst between them and by simplification of the optical networkstructure. The result of this evolution is so-called Adaptive AllOptical Intelligent Network.

-   -   Adaptive—an optical network should be easily rearrangeable        (tunable) subject to the end users' acquisition.    -   All Optical—a network with a light amount of OEO        (Optical-Electrical-Optical) conditionings (transformations).    -   Intelligent—a full-featured network with monitoring capabilities        and automatic control of optical medium dispersion alterations        for complete signal restoration (extraction).

Adaptive All Optical Intelligent Network consists of the following maincomponent blocks or modules:

4.1. ROADM—should make it possible to Add, to Drop and to change theroute of every wavelength from DWDM spectrum. It should not only ensureoperation (functioning) with channel burst of 100 GHz (45 wavelengths inC-latitude, 70 wavelengths in L-latitude), but also with channel burstof 50 GHz (90 wavelengths in C-latitude, 140 wavelengths in L-latitude).It should be transport for any kind of client traffic (calls flowcapacity) at speeds of 10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s. It should have atotal compatibility with the existing DWDM systems, despite thelimitations of CD, PMD, and OSNR. It is also necessary to notice thatthe technology used in ROADM networks—Optical Transport Network(OTN—G.709)—allows it to avoid apparent imperfections (drawbacks),inherent in Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) technologies at speedstep-up, for example from 10 up to 40 Gb/s and accordingly at pulseseparation reduction from 100 ps to 25 ps, viz: OSNR decrease by 6 dB,the tolerance and PMD become worse in 16 and 4 times accordingly.

4.2. Electronic Dispersion Compensation module (eDCO) is used in orderto simplify the scheme of organization and reduction of the cost ofphotonic lines at the expense of reduction of the number of the modulesDispersion Compensation Modules (DCM). The use of Digital SignalProcessing (DSP) in terminal equipment proved to be a very successfulsolution to how to simplify the scheme of organization of the photoniclines. In 2005 Nortel Company set forth the electronic DynamicallyCompensating 10G Optic technology, which made it possible to spread theoptical length over 1 242.74 miles (2000 km) without using DCMamplifiers, associated with them. It also automatically realized all thecompensations (balances) in the span consisting of different fiber-opticcables, at the expense of using DSP in terminal equipment transmitters.This resulted in the absence of the necessity of re-engineering whenchanging over to higher velocities in fiber and in the absence of makingup complicated dispersion charts (maps). Refer to FIG. 17—Thesimplification of optical network construction using eDCO and ROADM.

Thus, the Electronic Dispersion Compensation module (eDCO) and ROADMnode can be considered as a small “quantum processor” for performing theprotocol of purifying of tangling and for exchanging of tangling whichallow to get acceptable optical fiber amplification without losing itsbehavior.

4.3. The tunable narrow-band lasers, filters Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)and amplifiers (EDFA, OAM-Optical Amplifier Module, Raman amplifier)enabling scaling of the optical traffic network. For example,reorganization of the existing 10 Gb/s network and 40 Gb/s network.

4.4. The protocols, which allow to detect and correct bit errors infiber optic cable, caused by linear (attenuation, noise, dispersion) andnonlinear (four wave mixing, self phase modulation, cross phasemodulation) effects.

FEC (Forward Error Correction) allows it to detect 16-bit and to correct8-bit errors (in one and the same sub-row) in the fiber-optic cable,caused by linear (attenuation, noise, dispersion) and non-linear (fourwave mixing, self phase modulation, cross phase modulation) effects. Itenlarges the optical signal transmission range by means of increase insignal-to-noise ratio OSNR at lower input signal layers and it reducesthe necessity of using of Raman amplifiers. It was developed in order tobe used in terminal equipment of long-haul optical systems at the speedsup to 12.5 Gb/s.

In FIG. 18 the structure of OTN (Optical Transport Network) Overhead isoffered.

FAS (Frame Alignment Signal) consists of seven bytes, six of which arecalled a clock signal (a locking signal, sync or synchrosignal) and theseventh is MFAS (Multi Frame Alignment Signal), so called ultra frame(extra frame).

Optical Channel Transport Unit (OTU) consists of seven bytes, the firstthree of them are used as monitoring section, the next two are used asso called GCC 0 (General Communication Channel), serving as the startingindex for terminal devices and two idle bytes (in reserve).

Optical Channel Data Unit (ODU) includes the second, third and fourthrows 14 bytes each. The detailed description of each byte's function canbe found in the guidance (guidelines) G.709. The main purpose for thiscaption (title) is end-to-end supervision support and client adaptationsupport—the bytes of TCM (Tandem Connection Monitoring), PM (PathMonitoring).

Optical Payload Unit (OPU) serves the purpose of identification of theembedded client (payload type) traffic.

Client is the client traffic, embedded into the structure OTN-SDH, GFP,IP, GbE.

FEC—Forward Error Correction consists of four rows 255 byte each and ituses Reed Solomon code, the principle of operation of which is describedbelow. Refer to FIG. 19.

RS (255,239) code provides net electrical coding gain (NECG) 6.3 dB with1E-15 corrected bit-error rate (BER) and today it is used in themajority of long-haul fiber transmissions.

OTN is divided into 16 sub-rows 255 bytes each.

Each sub-row is formed by means of addition one byte from OH, Payloadand FEC to Payload.

In FIG. 20 you can see Reed Solomon code algorithm.

After that, 239 information bytes from each sub-row are used in order tocount FEC Parity Check sum, consisting of 8 bits. This is so calledcodeword. The result of this calculation is transferred for the firstsub-row in the 240^(th) byte, for the second sub-row in the 241^(st)byte, for the 16^(th) sub-row in the 255^(th) byte. The larger is thecodeword, which is in this case 8-bits order, the more inaccuratereceived bits can be corrected. FEC RS (255,239) is used forstandardized Ingress Inter Domain Interface and it also allows it toreduce the number of complex 3R (Re amplify-Reshape-Retime) devices. Theapplication of FEC RS (255,239) allows it to work with very low layersof optical signals, refer to FIG. 6 (BER—Bit Error Rate Performance),and at the same time it makes it possible to correct the potentialerrors. As it can be seen in FIG. 21, when the input optical signal hasthe quality of 1.00E-06 of bit errors and it uses RS (255,239) G.709 inorder to correct them, then the quality of the output signal is notworse than 1.00E-32 bit errors.

Advanced FEC is developed to be used in terminal equipment ofultra-long-haul (ULH) optical systems, next generation extreme-long-haul(ELH) optical systems at speeds up to 12.5 Gb/s.

The increase of the number of channels of DWDM systems caused thenecessity of creating algorithms for correcting the value net electricalcoding gain (NECG) for bit errors less than 1E-15 and as a result itcaused the necessity of application of additional codes, such asBose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenguem (BCH). The idea of application of so calledassociated (bound) codes expects that it is necessary to meet conditionk/n, where k is the dimension of the codeword, n is the size of datablock inside the codeword. Hamming distance is calculated just bymultiplication of ko/no*ki/ni ratios for subcode (inner code) andexternal code. And the more it is the more is the code redundancy andaccordingly the more is its correcting ability. In the diagram AdvancedFEC the combination of the sub code and the external code(two-dimensional correction or adjustment) increases Hamming distance,meanwhile the sub code operates with extremely high indices of biterrors, and the external code—with low indices of bit errors, but with avery high index of burst-error tolerance, i.e. it has the opportunity ofcorrecting of bit errors, flowing in packs (bursts). The technology ofso called multi dimensional correction or turbo-coding is a scheme thatallows it to correct different types of errors as a result of severalsuccessive operations, but not as a result of only two operations as itis in the case of two-dimensional correction. So, for additionalcorrection of low layer errors, from 1E-15 and lower, they use morecomplex code combinations than Reed Solomon (239,255), which is used inFEC protocol. Besides, Advanced FEC allows it more effectively tosuppress non-linear aberrations in the optical channel (four wavemixing, self phase modulation, cross phase modulation), which are themain factor of degradation of signal-to-noise ratio OSNR. That is why ifthe NECG index improves just by 1 dB it makes it possible to increasethe optical signal transmission range by 12% and with acceptable qualityof OSNR. Today the extent of optical lines, which use Advanced FECalgorithm amounts to 5000 km.

For safe delivery of quantum confidential keys through ROADM networklogic 0 and 1 should be transferred by sequences of the conditions,allowing correct bit errors in an optical cable.

Altogether, FEC protocols and Advanced FEC protocols may be approachedas global (embedded) protocols of purifying for splitting of highquality entangling over the compound optical channel.

5. For high transmission speeds (40 Gb/s and higher) it is necessary toexamine in addition the usage of optical signal encryption andmodulation for dispersion losses compensation (PMD, CD).

In order to achieve high speeds of optical signal transmission (from 40Gb/s and higher) the equipment manufacturers suggest using of thefollowing types of modulations for dispersion losses compensations:

-   -   Duobinary;    -   Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK);    -   Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK).

Duobinary modulation changes the optical signal phase in such a way thatit exactly halves the average value (mean value) of optical power of thesignal for coding of the state “1” in NRZ (Non-to-Return-to-Zero) code.This allows it to reduce the optical bandwidth, to increase OSNR ratio,and of course, to improve CD and PMD value.

Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) uses that type of modulation,which causes the application of so called balanced detectors (p-i-ndiodes) and it is a more expensive technology for equipment realization,than Duobinary modulation. However, DPSK modulation gives thesensitivity level of OSNR 3 dB higher than Duobinary modulation does.

Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK) is, strictlyspeaking, a four-layer version of DPSK, in which each symbol (sign,character) is encoded by means of combinations 00, 01, 11, 10. And so,the pass band of the optical signal is halved compared to DPSKmodulation. In this case, the cost of optical receivers increases at theexpense of complication of optoelectronic components and at the expenseof the increase in the number of so called one-bit optical delaycircuits.

The comparative description of different types of modulations is givenin FIG. 22.

In the first row the maximal length of the optical spacing with the useof different types of modulations is taken as a departing point. Thus,for Duobinary modulation the length of the optical spacing withoutreclaiming (regeneration) and using Raman amplifiers amounts to about310.69 miles (500 km), accordingly, without using this type ofmodulation (for Reference system) it is four times less.

In the second and third rows there are depicted the least allowable PMD,CD values for the chosen types of modulations of the optical signal.

In the two lower rows it is shown which is the maximum allowable numberof ROADM devices (WSS, WXC, PLC, WB, EDFA, OAM, Raman amplifier, e.g.)for use in one spacing of optical network, without obligatory reclaimingof the signal for different channel bursts (intervals) between neighborwavelengths—50 GHz and 100 GHz.

If try to use a comprehensive (complex, integrated) approach todetermination of the types of modulation which is necessary to be usedfor compensation (balance) of dispersion losses as the function(feature) of distance (Distance) and complexity of realization of theoptical circuits (Complexity/cost) then it is possible to refer to thetable, depicted in FIG. 23.

From the chart, depicted in FIG. 23, it is obvious that in order tosolve the problems on compensation of dispersion losses communicationstatements should apply different types of modulations, described above.The codes of optical signal (NRZ, RZ) also depend on the length of thehaul and on the cost of the equipment, forming it.

If we want to increase the maximum allowable number of ROADM devices(WSS, WXC, PLC, WB, EDFA, OAM, Raman amplifier, e.g.) for use in onespacing of optical network, without obligatory reclaiming of the signalfor different channel intervals between neighbor wavelengths—50 GHz and100 GHz, we can use 2 POL QPSK modulation by Nortel (see FIG. 22).

Evidently, it is better to use 2-POL QPSK modulation, that allow toincrease amount of ROADM devices (WSS, WXC, PLC, WB, EDFA, OAM, Ramanamplifier, e.g.) to 16 and higher compare to other types of modulationand increase distance fiber optic systems at high speed (40 Gb/s, 100Gb/s) to several thousand km.

6.The development of quantum encoding systems for widespreadtelecommunications network topologies, such as point-to-point,point-to-multipoint, star, ring, adjacent rings and for use in ROADMnetwork. Today, in addition to the topologies point-to-point andpoint-to-multipoint, (for example, the central office of a bank—itsbranches), some improvement in that direction has been suggestedalready, but may be it still needs deeper investigations. Some examplesof the improvement can be found in /11/.

Recent investigations in area of network topologies, that can be use forquantum encoder, one should take in the next references /6, 7, 8/.

Next ITU-T, IEEE and RFC Recommendation can be use for quantum encoder.in ROADM network:

-   -   Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), also known as IEEE 802.17;    -   ERPS (Ethernet Rings Protection Switching). This is defined in        ITU-T G.8032;    -   Spatial Reuse Protocol (RFC2982);    -   Dynamic Packet Transport;    -   Open Transport Network;    -   Metro Ring Protocol.

The switchover mechanism is hardware based and results in ultra fast (50ms) switchover without service loss. For this purposes we can use nextprotocols:

6.1. Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), also known as IEEE 802.17, is astandard designed for the optimized transport of data traffic overoptical fiber ring networks. Its design is to provide the resiliencefound in SONET/SDH networks (50 ms protection) but instead of setting upcircuit oriented connections, providing a packet based transmission.This is to increase the efficiency of Ethernet and IP services. RPRworks on a concept of dual counter rotating rings called ringlets. Theseringlets are set up by creating RPR stations at nodes where traffic issupposed to drop, per flow (a flow is the ingress and egress of datatraffic). RPR uses MAC (Media Access Control protocol) messages todirect the traffic, which can use either ringlet of the ring. The nodesalso negotiate for bandwidth among themselves using fairness algorithms,avoiding congestion and failed spans. The avoidance of failed spans isaccomplished by using one of two techniques known as “steering” and“wrapping”. Under steering if a node or span is broken all nodes arenotified of a topology change and they reroute their traffic. Inwrapping the traffic is looped back at the last node prior to the breakand routed to the destination station. All traffic on the ring isassigned a Class of Service (CoS) and the standard specifies threeclasses. Class A (or High) traffic is a pure CIR (Committed InformationRate) and is designed to support applications requiring low latency andjitter, such as voice and video. Class B (or Medium) traffic is a mix ofboth a CIR and an EIR (Excess Information Rate—which is subject tofairness queuing). Class C (or Low) is best effort traffic, utilizingwhatever bandwidth is available. This is primarily used to supportInternet access traffic. Another concept within RPR is what is known as“spatial reuse”. Because RPR “strips” the signal once it reaches thedestination (unlike a SONET UPSR/SDH SNCP ring, in which the bandwidthis consumed around the entire ring) it can reuse the freed space tocarry additional traffic. The RPR standard also supports the use oflearning bridges (IEEE 802.1D) to further enhance efficiency in point tomultipoint applications and VLAN tagging (IEEE 802.1Q). One drawback ofthe first version of RPR was that it didn't provide spatial reuse forframe transmission to/from MAC addresses not present in the ringtopology. This was addressed by IEEE 802.17b, which defines an optionalSpatially aware sub layer (SAS). This allows spatial reuse for frametransmission to/from MAC address not present in the ring topology.

6.2. ERPS (Ethernet Rings Protection Switching). Ethernet RingsProtection Switching or ERPS is an effort at ITU-T to provide sub-50 msprotection for Ethernet traffic in a ring topology and at the same timeensuring that there is no loops formed at the Ethernet layer. This isdefined in ITU-T G.8032. The first version supported a single ringarchitecture and the second version is expected to address multiplerings.

Principle of Operation

In ERPS there is a central node called RPL owner node which blocks oneof the port to ensure that there is no loop formed for the Ethernettraffic. The link which gets blocked by the RPL is called RingProtection Link or RPL. The other node which is connected to the RPL isknown as just RPL node. It uses messages called R-APS to coordinate theactivities of switching on/off the RPL link. Any failure along the ringtriggers a R-APS (SF) [R-APS (Signal Fail)] message along both thedirection from the nodes adjacent to the failed link after these nodeshave blocked the port facing the failed link. On obtaining this message,RPL owner unblocks the RPL port. (Note here that as there is at leastone link which has failed somewhere in the ring ensures that there canbe no loop formation in the ring.)During the recovery phase when thefailed link gets restored the nodes adjacent to the restored link sendR-APS(NR) [R-APS (No Request)] messages. On obtaining this the RPL ownerblock the RPL port and then send R-APS(NR,RB) [R-APS(NR, Root blocked)]messages. This will cause all other nodes other than RPL owner in thering to unblock all the blocked ports. This protocol is robust enough towork for unidirectional failure and in case of multiple failures in thering. It allows mechanism to Force Switch (FS) or Manual Switch (MS) totake care of field maintenance scenario.

6.3. Spatial Reuse Protocol (RFC2982).

Spatial Reuse Protocol is a networking protocol developed by CiscoSystems. It is a MAC-layer (sub layer of layer 2) protocol forring-based packet internetworking that is commonly used in optical fiberring networks. Ideas from the protocol are reflected in parts of theIEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) standard.

SRP was first developed as a layer 2 (data-link layer) protocol to linkCisco's Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT) protocol (a method of deliveringpacket-based traffic over a SONET/SDH infrastructure) to the physicalSONET/SDH layer. DPT cannot communicate directly with the physicallayer, therefore it was necessary to develop an intermediate layerbetween DPT and SONET/SDH, SRP filled this role.

Analogy to POS.

SRP behaves quite like the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) does in aPacket Over SONET (POS) environment. PPP acts as an abstraction layerbetween a higher level layer 2 technology such as POS and a layer 1technology such as SONET/SDH. Layer 1 and high level layer 2 protocolscannot interact directly without having an intermediate low level layer2 protocol, in the case of DPT the layer 2 protocol is SRP.

Spatial Reuse Capability

DPT environments contain dual, counter-rotating rings, somewhat likeFDDI. SRP has a unique bandwidth efficiency mechanism which allowsmultiple nodes on the ring to utilize the entirety of its bandwidth,this mechanism is called the Spatial Reuse Capability. Nodes in an SRPenvironment can send data directly from source to destination. Considerthe following ring environment (for example, running at OC-48c [2.5Gbit/s]) with 6 routers (A through F sequentially) on it. Routers A andD are sending data back and forth at 1.5 Gbit/s while routers B and Care sending data at 1 Gbit/s, this utilizes the entire 2.5 Gbit/s acrossrouters A through D but still leaves routers F and E untouched. Thismeans that routers F and E can be sending data at 2.5 Gbit/s betweeneach other concurrently, resulting in the total throughput of the ringbeing 5 Gbit/s. The reason for this is the implementation of a methodcalled “destination stripping”. Destination stripping means that thedestination of the data removes it from the ring network, this differsfrom “source stripping” in that the data is only present on the sectionof network between the source and destination nodes. In sourcestripping, the data is present all the way around the ring and isremoved by the source node. FDDI and token ring networks use sourcestripping, whereas DPT and SRP use destination stripping. Again,consider the previous example of the OC-48c ring. In a source stripping(FDDI or Token Ring) environment, in the event that router A wanted tocommunicate with router D, the entire network would be taken up whilethe data was being transmitted because it would have to wait until itcompleted the loop and got back to router A before it was eliminated. Ina destination stripping (DPT and SRP) environment, the data would onlybe present between router A and Router D and the rest of the networkwould be free to communicate.

SRP Header

The SRP header is 16 bits (2 bytes) total. It contains 5 fields. Thesefields are as follows: Time to Live (TTL), Ring Identifier (R), Priority(PRI), Mode, and Parity (P). The TTL field is 8 bits, its only metric ishop count. The R field is 1 bit (either 0 or 1 designating the inner orouter ring). The PRI field is 3 bits designating the packet priority.The Mode field is 3 bits designating what type of data is contained inthe payload. The P field is 1 bit.

6.4. Dynamic Packet Transport

Dynamic packet transport (DPT) is a Cisco transport protocol designedfor use in optical fiber ring networks. In overview, it is quite similarto POS and DTM. It was one of the major influences on the ResilientPacket Ring/802.17 standard.

Protocol Design

DPT is implemented as two counter-rotating rings. This means the networkis composed of two completely separate rings of fiber that are both ableto transmit data concurrently. This design provides for redundancy incase of a fiber cut or link failure, and increased throughput in commonsituations. DPT as opposed to POS or normal SONET/SDH is able to useboth rings at the same time whereas POS only uses one ring under normalcircumstances but switches to the second upon failure of the first.Cisco claims that DPT can run with double the bit-rate of POS due tothis characteristic. Another interesting point is the fact that DPT isnot a PPP whereas POS is. This means that traffic between two nodes of aDPT ring does not affect intermediate nodes. With the introduction ofDPT came the introduction of another Cisco developed MAC layer protocol,Spatial Reuse Protocol or SRP. The use of SRP in conjunction with DPTmakes it possible for DPT to communicate with the physical layer.

Types of Data in DPT Networks

As with most other lower layer protocols, there are methods forcommunicating not only application data between the nodes of a DPTnetwork. It is necessary for the nodes to be able to communicate controldata between each other in case of a fiber cut or link failure so thenodes can forward traffic on the appropriate interfaces and maintainnetwork connectivity. Both control packets, and data packets aretransmitted on both rings in order to maintain connectivity and fullbandwidth utilization in normal situations; but once a failure occurs,the control data will notify the applicable routers of the failure andall the routers will switch to using only their active interfaces fordata and control packets.

DPT Packet Structure

The structure of a DPT Packet is quite similar to that of Ethernet. Itcontains a source and destination MAC address (both 48-bits long), aprotocol type identifier (used for identifying the upper layer protocolcontained in the payload), and an FCS used to validate the data.

DPT Topologies

Both DPT and SRP are independent of their physical layers. This meansthat the DPT protocol can operate above several physical mediums such asSONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and others. As aforementioned, DPT iscomposed of two rings for fault tolerance and increased throughput. Themethod for switching between these two rings in the event of a failureis called Intelligent Protection Switching, or IPS. This ensures that afiber cut or link failure (layer 1 error) will be rectified and IPtraffic will be resumed within 50 ms. DPT also contains a “plug andplay” feature which dynamically fetches the MAC addresses of neighboringdevices which provides for very simple configuration with little to nosetup prior to functional data transfer.

6.5. Open Transport Network.

OTN, which stands for Open Transport Network is Siemens Atea's flexibleprivate communication network, based on the fiber optic technology. Itis a brand name and not to be mistaken with Optical Transport Network.It is a networking technology that aims at transporting a number ofcommunication protocols over an optical fiber and is a mix ofTransmission and Access NE. This includes serial protocols (e.g. RS232)as well as telephony (POTS/ISDN), audio, Ethernet, video andvideo-over-IP (via M-JPEG, MPEG2/4, H.264 or DVB).

The basic building block of OTN is called a node. It is a 19″ frame thathouses and interconnects the building blocks that produce the OTNfunctionality. Core building blocks are the power supply and the opticalring adapter (called BORA: Broadband Optical Ring Adapter). Theremaining node space can be configured with up to 8 (different) layer 1interfaces as required. OTN nodes are interconnected using pluggableoptical fibers in a dual counter rotating ring topology. The primaryring consists of fibers carrying data from node to node in onedirection, the secondary ring runs parallel with the primary ring butcarries data in the opposite direction. Under normal circumstances, onlyone ring carries active data. If a failure is detected in this datapath, the secondary ring is activated. This hot standby topology resultsin a 1+1 path redundancy. The switchover mechanism is hardware based andresults in ultra fast (50 ms) switchover without service loss.

Virtual bidirectional point-to-point or point-to-multipoint connections(services) between identical interfaces in different nodes areprogrammed via a configuration software called OMS (OTN managementsystem). By doing this, OTN mimics a physical wire harnessinterconnecting electronic data equipment but with the added advantagestypical for fiber transmission and with high reliability due to theintrinsic redundant concept.

This concept makes the Open Transport Network the de-facto transmissionbackbone standard for industrial high reliability communication sitesthat require error free communication for a large spectrum of protocolsover long distances like pipelines, metros, rail, motorways andindustrial sites.

The optical rings transport frames with a bit rate of (approximately)150 Mb/s (STM-1/OC-3), 622 Mb/s (STM-4/OC-12), 2.5 Gb/s (STM-16/OC-48)or 10 Gb/s (STM-64/OC-192). The frames are divided into 32 kb payloadcells that carry the service data from source to destination. Via theOTN management system, as many cells as required by the service areallocated to connections. This bandwidth allocation is transferred tothe non-volatile memory of the control boards of the nodes. As a result,the network is able to start up and work without the OMS connected or online.

6.6. Metro Ring Protocol.

The Metro Ring Protocol (MRP) is a Layer 2 resilience protocol developedby Foundry Networks and currently being delivered in productsmanufactured by Foundry and Hewlett Packard. The protocol quite tightlyspecifies a topology in which layer 2 devices, usually at the core of alarger network, are configured and as such is able to achieve muchfaster failover times than other Layer 2 protocols such as SpanningTree.

On the basis of what has been said above, one can assume, that proposedby the present invention quantum cryptography methods seem to becompletely realizable from the technical viewpoint for long haul andextreme long haul distance fiber optic DWDM systems with high speedtransmission 10,40,100 Gb/s for commercial proposals.

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1. A method of the private key transmitting and measurement onReconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers (ROADM) based networks forEinstein-Podolsky-Rozen (EPR) polarized photons with single photonsource comprising: performance of private key extraction in ROADMnetworks along with realization of the Quantum Protection Amplification(QPA) scheme for the purpose to clean states of the entangling polarizedphotons in a presence of noise in optical channels; performance themethod of the code key shipment, which meets requirements offortuitousness and privacy and allows enlarge the speed and the distanceof the generation of the key in ROADM network; performing bit errorsrate (BER) correction in fiber optic cable, caused by linear—asattenuation, noise, dispersion, and nonlinear—as four wave mixing, selfphase modulation, cross phase modulation, effects; selection ofmodulation mode for high speed data service on the level of 40 Gb/s orhigher, for polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and chromatic dispersion(CD) compensation; selection of one of the following protocols asResilient Packet Ring (RPR), also known as IEEE 802.17 or ERPS (EthernetRings Protection Switching(ITU-T G.8032 for widespreadtelecommunications network topologies of the followingtypes—point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, star, ring, adjacentrings—with ultra fast switchover mechanism to avoid service loss. 2.Device for realization of quantum encoding method on dense wavelengthdivision multiplexing (DWDM) network for EPR polarized photons withsingle photon source as recited in claim 1, comprising: means forprivate key extraction in the presence of cable noise in fiber optics inROADM based networks and with the use of QPA scheme, based on dual portsOptical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA) with embedded Optical Polarized Splitter(OPS) method; device for emanation of ERP polarized photons-singlephoton laser source; device for code key shipment, which satisfiesrequirements of fortuitousness, privacy and allows enlarge the speed andthe distance of the generation of the key in ROADM network comprisingdepend of used methods (JME, Fixed Analyzer Method, GINTY orTINTY)—narrow or broadband laser source, polarizer, scrambler,polarimeter, polarization beam splitter, interferometer, opticalspectrum analyzer; quantum repeater for bit errors detection andcorrection in fiber optic cable, caused by linear—as attenuation, noise,dispersion-PMD, CD, and nonlinear—as four wave mixing, self phasemodulation, cross phase modulation, effects; device for modulationsignal high speed, of 40 Gb/s or higher, data service for thepolarization mode dispersion (PMD) and chromatic dispersion (CD)compensation; device of switchover mechanism type for widespreadtelecommunications network topologies, as point-to-point,point-to-multipoint, star, ring, adjacent rings for the purpose ultrafast switchover to avoid service interruption.
 3. Method as recited inclaim 1, where the said private key extraction in the presence of cablenoise in fiber optics and ROADM based networks and realization of theQPA scheme to clean structure of the entangling polarized photonscomprising: selecting mode for single-photon emanation in accordancewith demands of by a stable power testing of predefined high-accuracywith power stability during 15 min ±0.005 (dB) (Δ=0.01) and during 8hours ±0.03 (dB) (Δ=0.06), output power uncertainty (dB) ±0.3, ofspectral sensitivity with wavelength accuracy (nm) ±0.01 and wavelengthstability (nm) ±0.002; transmitting secret keys through ROADM network atcertain wavelength from DWDM range; performing of the code key shipment,satisfying requirements of fortuitousness, privacy and allows enlargethe speed and the distance of the generation of the key in ROADMnetwork, said fortuitousness in the process of the key distribution isto be reached by means of polarization of photon pulses in Pockets cells(horizontal/vertical polarization) or by means of phase encoding; saidprivacy is to be reached using two types of polarization; two types ofpolarization regarding ITU G.650.2 PMD test Methods—Jones MatrixEigenanalysis JME method and Method Fixed Analyzer, and phase shiftregarding ITU G.650.2 PMD test Methods Interferometer Generalized Method(GINTY) and Interferometry Traditional Method (TINTY)), said increase ofthe speed and the distance of the generation of the key is to be reachedusing of methods for measurement PMD (JME, MFA, GINTY, TINTY) in highspeed and ultra-long-haul ROADM network; performing of bit errorsdetection and correction in fiber optic cable and ROADM network usingForward Error Correction (FEC) for long-haul optical systems at thespeeds up to 12.5 Gb/s or Advanced FEC (AFEC) in the case of terminalequipment (quantum repeater) of ultra-long-haul (ULH) optical systems orextreme-long-haul (ELH) optical systems at speeds up to 12.5 Gb/s;performing modulation for high speed data service of 40 Gb/s and higher,for the compensation of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and chromaticdispersion (CD); performing protection of one of the followingtelecommunications network topologies in ROADM networks from serviceinterruption, such as point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, star, ring,adjacent rings by means with embedded switchover mechanism, that useResilient Packet Ring (RPR), also known as IEEE 802.17 or ERPS (EthernetRings Protection Switching(ITU-T G.8032); receiving secret keys fromROADM network at certain wavelength from DWDM range, said DWDM range atidentical wavelength as transmit; private keys extraction at receivingside by QPA scheme based on dual port Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA)with embedded OPS method; measuring by means dual port OSA the in-bandOSNR (Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio) using Optical Polarization Splitter(OPS) method, which based on polarization-nulling technique; performingimposition secret key, which has been extracted by QPA scheme, at thecustomers data in multiplexers ROADM for purpose of quantum encoding. 4.System for realization of method as recited in claim 3, comprising:single-photon laser source that meets a requirements of high-accuracyand the stable power testing with power stability during 15 min ±0.005(dB) (Δ=0.01) and during 8 hours ±0.03 (dB) (Δ=0.06), output poweruncertainty (dB) ±0.3, of spectral sensitivity with wavelength accuracy(nm) ±0.01 and wavelength stability (nm) ±0.002; transmitting means fortransmitting secret keys through ROADM network at certain wavelengthfrom DWDM range; performing of the code key shipment, satisfyingrequirements of fortuitousness, privacy and allows enlarge the speed andthe distance of the generation of the key in ROADM network comprising:tunable narrowband laser source, three linear polarizers and polarimeterin according to ITU G.650.2 PMD test Method—Jones Matrix Eigenanalysis(JME method); broadband polarized laser source and a polarized(variable) optical spectrum analyzer in according to ITU G.650.2 PMDtest Method-Fixed Analyzer Method. broadband laser source, polarizer,optical spectrum analyzer, interferometer (Mach-Zehnder or Michelson inaccording to ITU G.650.2 PMD test Method—Interferometer TraditionalMethod (TINTY); broadband laser source, polarizer, two polarizationscramblers, optical spectrum analyzer, interferometer (Mach-Zehnder orMichelson) polarization beam splitter in according to ITU G.650.2 PMDtest Method—Interferometer Generalized Method (GINTY); quantum repeatercomprising embedded protocols, for performing of bit errors detectionand correction in fiber optic cable using Forward Error Correction (FEC)with Reed Solomon (RS (255,239)) code algorithm, which allows it todetect 16-bit and to correct 8-bit errors for long-haul optical systemsat the speeds up to 12.5 Gb/s and or Advanced FEC (AFEC) in the case ofterminal equipment(quantum repeater) of ultra-long-haul (ULH) opticalsystems or extreme-long-haul (ELH) optical systems at speeds up to 12.5Gb/s; means as WXC (Wavelength Cross Connector), WSS (WavelengthSelective Switch) with embedded modulator 2POL QPSK or DifferentialQuadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK) and the like for performingmodulation for high speed data service (40 Gb/s and higher) and usemechanism for the compensation polarization mode dispersion (PMD) andchromatic dispersion (CD); means with embedded switchover mechanism, asWavelength Cross Connector (WXC), Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS),that use methods of Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) also known as IEEE802.17 or ERPS (Ethernet Rings Protection Switching (ITU-T G.8032) andthe like, for obtaining protection from service interruption oftelecommunications network topologies, as point-to-point,point-to-multipoint, star, ring, adjacent rings; receiving means forreceiving secret keys from ROADM network at certain wavelength from DWDMrange, said DWDM range at identical wavelength as transmit; private keyextraction means for private keys extraction at receiving side by dualport Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA) with embedded OPS method; measuringmeans (dual port OSA) for measuring the in-band OSNR (OpticalSignal-to-Noise Ratio) using Optical Polarization Splitter (OPS) method,which based on polarization-nulling technique; multiplexer ROADM, thatperforms imposition secret key, extracted by QPA scheme, at thecustomers data for purpose of quantum encoding.
 5. Device for the codekey shipment as recited in claim 2, which meets requirements offortuitousness and privacy, comprising: tunable narrowband laser source,three linear polarizers and polarimeter in according to ITU G.650.2 PMDtest Method—Jones Matrix Eigenanalysis (JME method); broadband polarizedlaser source and a polarized (variable) optical spectrum analyzer inaccording to ITU G.650.2 PMD test Method-Fixed Analyzer Method;broadband laser source, polarizer, optical spectrum analyzer,interferometer (Mach-Zehnder or Michelson in according to ITU G.650.2PMD test Method—Interferometer Traditional Method (TINTY); broadbandlaser source, polarizer, two polarization scramblers, optical spectrumanalyzer, interferometer (Mach-Zehnder or Michelson) polarization beamsplitter in according to ITU G.650.2 PMD test Method—InterferometerGeneralized Method (GINTY).